{"product_id":"9781927428733","title":"The Freedom in American Songs: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Key Indie Fiction Title, Fall 2014\u003cbr\u003eA BBC.com Book to Read for October, 2014\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni mechanic turned funeral porteur, Madame Poirer’s lapdog (and its chastity belt), a congregation of hard-singing, sex-obsessed Pentecostals, and more. With \u003ci\u003eThe Freedom in American Songs\u003c\/i\u003e , Kathleen Winter brings her unusual sensuality, lyrically rendered settings, and subversive humour to bear on a new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teens, catastrophic love, and the holiness of ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Kathleen Winter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Utterly original.\"— \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Absorbing, earnest. . . . Beautifully written.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her lyrical voice and her crystalline landscape are enchanting.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Read it because it's a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, Winter asks, what are we?\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She captures the way the truth both imprisons us and sets us free. . . . Simple, touching, real, absolutely convincing and sympathetic.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major writer.\"— \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048540750064,"sku":"9781927428733","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927428733_p0.jpg?v=1772500772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927428733","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}